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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1939
Page
6
In Kalispell and across Montana, reports note a dog poisoning reward drive with $300 from 50 contributors, new forest supervision in Bozeman, and a surge of commercial outfits in Hombson. Wheat yields and light tests dominate farm notes, rail and gas rate probes begin, and various local events involve Masons, CCC enrollees, and WPA projects.
Two young buyers, Alice and John, choose an opal pin over a pearl. After wearing the opal, a string of misfortunes and gifts follows, culminating in a job promotion and plans for marriage as John reveals a hidden trick. The jeweler Mr Stone is amused by the pair’s fate and awaits their next request.
John Taylor memoir of the Black Hills era recounts Wild Bill Hickok’s 1876 poker hall shooting by Jack McCall. He describes pursuing McCall, aiding Hickok’s burial, and McCall’s trials in Yankton. Taylor known Calamity Jane, Poker Annie, the Dalton brothers, and Custer City foundations.
A frontier figure moved from New Mexico to Oklahoma where he helped organize Guthrie’s first fire department. He later settled in Colorado Idaho and California and joined early coal ingo oil field development. He played cards with Billy the Kid and witnessed regional conflicts between sheep men and cattlemen.
The Cleveland 4H poultry team earned superior ranking in demonstration contests at the World Poultry Congress in Cleveland. Members Lorraine Nichols and June Wesen and club leader Merla Uphaus, with county agent Charles E. Jarrett, attended. The team also won first in state regional contests.
Lewis A. Smith, 68, a wealthy retired attorney and long-time resident of Virginia City and Butte, was arrested in California on a Virginia City Mont warrants charging he obtained property under false pretenses. He contends the charges stem from a mining stock transaction involving a dormant mine now producing.
Baron Nobux inherits wealth and faces a breach of promise claim from Lydia Pinchdime now widowed. To avoid litigation he takes a Caribbean cruise and discovers Lydia and his uncle Rafe Sizzlepuss aboard the same ship.
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